RYAN Atkins is achieving his early season goal with Warrington Wolves.

The 33-year-old wanted to regain the right-centre spot in his Testimonial year and so far has featured there in all three wins at the start of the 2019 campaign.

One of his keen rivals for the position, Toby King, has been called on twice in the second row.

Atkins will head to Catalans Dragons with The Wire on Saturday buoyed by his first two-try salvo for two months in the win against Huddersfield at the weekend.

And those two scores from kicks achieved a new milestone for Atkins in his 10th season since joining the club from Wakefield Trinity.

He is now 18th in the club's all-time point scorers' chart.

The former England international jumps above full-back Ben Jolley's 653 points set between 1912 and 1926.

Atkins is the only player in the club's top 20 points scorers to have achieved his total from tries only!

His 165 tries and 660 points have been amassed from 262 starts plus two appearances off the bench.

An interesting statistic that may come into play for The Wire's most prolific scorers is that no Warrington player has scored a hat-trick in an away game against Catalans.

Two-try hauls have been achieved numerous times, the most recent being Ben Murdoch-Masila's effort last March on the first time in history that Catalans were 'nilled' at home.

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Current assistant coach Lee Briers holds the record for a Catalans away game for the most goals and points in one match - the eight goals and 20 points he clocked up in Perpignan in 2006.